Your WordPress site got hacked again. Now what?
Cleanups fix today’s infection. Here is why the same site gets hit again, and what actually breaks the cycle.
Why the same site gets hit again
Attackers rarely pick a small business by name. Automated bots scan millions of sites for one thing: a plugin or theme version with a known flaw. Your site gets hit because of what it runs, not who you are.
The numbers explain the cycle. In 2025 researchers logged 11,334 new WordPress vulnerabilities, 91% in plugins, and 46% had no fix from the developer when they became public. For the most heavily exploited flaws, about half were attacked within 24 hours of disclosure (Patchstack, 2026).
A site with twenty plugins is waiting on twenty different developers to ship fixes in time.
What a real fix includes
If you stay on WordPress, the cleanup is step one. To stop the repeat:
- Find the entry point: which plugin, theme or account let them in.
- Remove what you don’t use: every inactive plugin and theme, and every old admin account.
- Update everything, and keep updating every week.
- Check for backdoors: unfamiliar PHP files in uploads, new admin users, changed core files.
- Change every password: WordPress, hosting, FTP and database.
- Watch it: a monitoring service, and Google Search Console for security warnings.
That works, and it is ongoing work. It never really ends while the site runs plugins.
The option that removes the target
Most small business sites are pages and a contact form. They don’t need a login on the public web, a database or plugin code. When the site is plain HTML:
- there is no
wp-login.phpfor bots to hammer, - there is no database to inject into,
- there are no plugin versions for scanners to match.
We rebuild your site from its public pages, so infected files don’t come along. You keep your URLs and your forms. After that you change content by email, and nobody needs a WordPress password at all.
Check what attackers can see today
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